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I did not think it was possible to love Ricky Jay any more than I already did, but this show looks great! Do you remember Mark Singer's New Yorker profile of him several years ago (collected in Character Studies)? It's wonderful.

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I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.